Turn to comforting poems about death to find strength and encouragement, or as a meaningful way to let someone know they are ...

The debate around which woman inspired the young, dead, beautiful woman in many of Poe’s poems and the speculation is that his wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, might have been the inspiration ...

It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.” He would later write love poems of his own (most of which he never delivered). And move on from there to published ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O ...

Existence is suffering; the manifestation of existence is suffering. Life is suffering; death is suffering. This entire illusory and unblemished universe is suffering. What is consciousness? It is a ...

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November is a wild ride, folks. With a goth AF new moon in Scorpio, a historically hostile opposition between Mars and Pluto, ...

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